Shred Life Blowout
Every year in March, I make a pilgrimage to Vermont for the last great weekend of the East Coast season: The US Open and World Quarters. Its an almost Groundhog Day-esque affair, each year the snow is sparse, the sun is shining and everybody is in the mood to wile out. Ok every now and then the weather gets wack but the wile out part, that’s always true. This year was no different. Actually, this year was off the hook. Uncle Craig (Frank151), Michael (Shut NYC), Tracy (ESPN) and I packed up a brolic Toyota Tundra LTD Crew Max and headed up to Stratton on the Wednesday before the Open so we could get entrenched before the madness. For the next 6 days the entire shred world dropped in and did it right: Danny Kass won his fifth US Open halfpipe, Louie Vito turned 21 and the World Quarters pushed the boundaries of competitive riding from rad to literally fucking insane. Check out the full trip photo gallery courtesy of Craig Wetherby after the jump.
First person we ran into: Prosser of course.
Then Moran and Driscoll.
Prosser pretty much set the tone right here.
There was some snowboarding: Luke Mitrani hucking huge (25 ft!) for the highest air title at the QP.
Here’s Keir talking to him about it.
Louie was there but was mostly saving his energy for his birthday party.
Looks like he made the right choice: his first sip of beer ever.
His party was crackin!
Luis was killing it.
Had em up on the rafters!
And jumpin off them!
Nobody caught this dude.
Analog’s Mo in the house.
Homie Time: Danny, Louie and the Dingo.
The next day it was Gold time, Santigold that is.
They killed it.
Jake and Anne-Marie were stoked.
Why wouldn’t Jake be, he just got out of this chopper.
From there, shit just got crazier. This is where it ended up. Best pic of the week. That beer is full yo!
Now on to the Quarters.
This 5.7L V8 mobile command center was the illest rig on the hill and we never didn’t get first row parking, how you gonna stop a Crew Max??
Boom! Like I said, Insane!
Hi Five brah!
Broken bones didn’t get in the way of the drinking.
This is about as organized as it got.
Paddock!
Only the video can do it justice, witness the craze! This guy was “security!”
Until next year! Now it’s skate time.
